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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Design to Digital Twin: Building Indoor GIS with CAD and BIM Data

CAD and BIM have long served as the foundational design and construction documentation —but their utility often ends at project handoff. What if it didn’t? Indoor GIS is a floor-aware system of record for visualizing, analyzing, and managing facilities and collection of buildings. This session will demonstrate how to extend the life of CAD and BIM data into an indoor GIS, and empower CAD, BIM and GIS practitioners to build a Digital Workplace for building operations. Learn about the role of CAD and BIM integrations with GIS to fuel these workflows. See how to import design data into ArcGIS Indoors to map assets and manage spaces, enable real-time navigation with ArcGIS IPS, and equip facilities’ staff with mobile tools for asset inspections and maintenance. Whether new to GIS or looking to modernize facility operations workflows, this session provides you with guidance and examples to convert CAD and BIM data into Digital Workplaces that support asset and space management.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Top Firms Share How to Build Knowledge Infrastructure to Scale AI-Powered Digital Adoption

Hear from a panel of top firms including Jacobs, Tetra Tech, IDOM and HDR as they share best practices on building the human intelligence and knowledge infrastructure layer across the AI-enabled tech stack. Learn how to elevate human plus agentic AI workflows to close digital skills gaps to realize the ROI of improved performance, reduced rework and risk and a competitive edge to win more bids. Imagine the AI-powered digital adoption platform where information from trusted sources is instantly converted into consumable and actionable knowledge, personalized for every learner and delivered in the flow of work through mainstream applications connecting the field and office. GeT tangible data on knowledge gaps and skills matrices through organized learning content and skills challenges aligned with company workflows and project standards. Drive tech adoption at scale with AI-powered "just enough, just in time, and just for me" verified knowledge because the best training is training your way. GeT IT Your Way.

40p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Find Answers, Not Artifacts: One Search Across All Your Project Systems
Your firm already holds the answer to almost every question your teams ask. It's buried in specs, RFIs, submittals, drawings, and contracts across hundreds of projects. The problem was never a lack of data. It was getting an answer without digging for the artifact. This session shows what changes when AI is grounded in your real project data. We start simple, asking a question of one folder. Then we go historical: what did we spec for the curtain wall on our last three hospital projects? Then live across your active systems. The part that separates this from every generic AI demo: you watch permissions respected in real time. Change who's asking, and the answers change with them.
13p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
Fusion + Naya: End-to-End Workflow for Physical Products
The next decade of physical product design will be defined by what teams choose to automate. Modern design tools should not just make things happen faster. They should free teams to focus on taste-making, creation, and human intuition, while quietly handling the repetitive work no one wants to do. This session explores how end-to-end product workflows, powered by AI and human collaboration, are enabling teams to design faster, more efficiently, and better for the world. See how Autodesk Fusion and Naya complement each other across the full design process, from first concept to manufacturing, and walk away with a strategic view of how Fusion and Naya enable a better design process, and where the next year of AI and workflow is heading.
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
A Dynamic Lab on AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks
Why should you be using dynamic blocks? Quite simply, dynamic blocks can greatly reduce the number of blocks in your library, improving your efficiency. While it does take a little more time up front to create a dynamic block, the time saved on the back end makes it well worth the effort. Even better news: If you're a proficient AutoCAD user, you should have no problem converting those boring static blocks into shiny, new dynamic blocks.
45p
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
The Stack Inversion Is Real: How AI Is Changing What CAD Managers Actually Do
AI tools are not just adding new features to CAD workflows. They are changing where the real work happens.
Some tasks that used to require deep CAD knowledge can now be researched, diagnosed, or automated faster than before. At the same time, more decisions about standards, support, compliance, and workflow ownership are landing on the CAD manager's desk.
This session looks at what is actually changing in day-to-day CAD management, including advanced support research, complex CAD issue diagnosis, CER crash analysis, CAD standards compliance, and using real project and support data to develop better best practices. We will focus on the skills that are becoming more valuable and how to prepare your team before the shift catches you off guard.
26p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
No Line of Sight, No Leveling: Syncing Field Reality to Revit with Topcon Origo
Traditional field layout is a disconnected process plagued by line-of-sight obstructions, tedious equipment leveling, and office-to-field data gaps. When conditions shift on chaotic jobsites, the central design model is left completely out of date. This fast-paced, 20-minute session closes the loop entirely. See how to generate precise field points using Autodesk Point Layout (APL), execute high-precision layout with the Topcon Origo ecosystem requiring zero equipment leveling or line-of-sight constraints and seamlessly pull "as-staked" and field conditions directly back into your model using ClearEdge3D Tools for Revit. Stop fighting site obstructions learn to build a true two-way Revit workflow.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Factory Summit | Autodesk Forma: The Common Data Environment for Gigafactory Development
In this session, we'll go over how to use Autodesk Forma projects for managing the design of gigafactories and comparable megaprojects. Learn how Tesla brings together inputs from manufacturing teams, design groups, and construction management into one common repository to streamline project delivery. Explore how cloud-workshared Revit projects organize inputs from AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other industry CAD tools to bring manufacturing context into your Revit files, and send factory context to your manufacturing teams or vendors. Finally, see how tools within Forma allow for coordination, clash resolution, and field documentation to support successful project execution.
25p
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Vault 2027: What's New and Where We're Headed
Vault software continues to evolve to support modern engineering and enterprise needs. And Vault 2027 delivers focused improvements in workflow efficiency, productivity, and platform integration. In this 60‑minute session, we'll explore what's new in Vault 2027. You'll learn how these enhancements support real‑world CAD, engineering, and IT workflows. And you'll see how they fit into enterprise environments. We'll also look ahead at the Vault roadmap, highlighting strategic themes and future direction. Learn how customer feedback helps shape Vault and how to prepare your organization for what's coming next.
18p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
From 2D Layout to 3D Simulation: A Digital Factory Hands-On Lab
In this hands-on lab, you'll experience a connected digital factory workflow by executing it in real time. Starting with a 2D factory layout in AutoCAD using Factory Design Utilities, you'll convert it into a 3D model in Inventor with a single click and bring it into FlexSim for simulation. The lab will also demonstrate how design changes are synchronized across AutoCAD, Inventor, and FlexSim, ensuring a connected workflow and reducing manual rework. You'll gain practical skills to move from layout to simulation in minutes.
21p
22p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
PLM Summit | Lifting the Weight of Product Development at Overhead Door
Learn how Overhead Door shaved 18 months off its new product development (NPD) timeline. What once averaged 30 months now follows a standardized phase-gated process in Autodesk Fusion Manage to be completed in under 12 months with most projects tracking ahead of schedule. This session will explore this journey of improving resource visibility, strengthening cross-functional collaboration, and creating leadership visibility into bottlenecks.
19p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Does Your Workstation GPU Still Make the Cut? How Local AI Is Raising the Bar for Autodesk Workflows.
The workstation GPU that handles your Revit models and 3ds Max renders may be showing its age not because Autodesk got more demanding, but because AI did. Local AI tools are rapidly becoming part of how design and engineering professionals work: generating concepts, automating repetitive tasks, and running inference without sending sensitive project data to the cloud. These workloads are GPU-hungry, and they compete directly with your Autodesk applications for the same critical resource: graphics memory. In this session, we'll give Autodesk users a practical framework for understanding GPU memory requirements across the workflows that matter to them. You'll see how real Autodesk applications perform under varying VRAM configurations, what happens when local AI enters the picture, and where the common pain points emerge. We'll also look at what the next generation of workstation GPUs brings to the table and whether an upgrade is warranted or premature.
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
Collaborate Better with AutoCAD and Autodesk Forma Data Management: Share, Trace, Multi-User Markups, Checkout
See how AutoCAD software and Forma Data Management (formerly Autodesk Docs) work together so your team can collaborate without confusion. This hands-on session will walk you through Share sending view or edit links so others can open drawings in the browser or in AutoCAD on the web and Trace adding markups on a syncing overlay and bringing them into the main drawing. You'll try multi-user markups so several people can add feedback to the same design from web and desktop, and see how to use checkout to reserve entities for edit, submit for review, then merge approved checkout back into the drawing. Whether you work in AutoCAD desktop, on the web, or with Forma Data Management, you'll leave with a clear workflow to share, review, and manage drawings as a team.
44p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
The New Backbone of Pfizer's Data Infrastructure
The new backbone of Pfizer's data management brings transformation in how engineering data is managed. By a strategic data migration into Autodesk Vault and Forma, legacy information has been consolidated into a more structured, reliable system. Previously fragmented datasets are organized, enabling cleaner access, better traceability, and improved governance. This modernization enhances project communication and collaboration across teams, ensuring stakeholders are aligned throughout the engineering project lifecycle. With streamlined file handover processes and centralized control, project management becomes more efficient. Vault and Forma establish a robust foundation that supports scalability and consistency across Pfizer's operations.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
AI-Ready Workstations: Powering the Next Generation of Autodesk Workflows in AEC
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the AEC space. Bringing new capabilities to Autodesk applications such as Revit, AutoCAD, Forma, Construction Cloud, and emerging AI-powered design and productivity tools. Realizing the full value of these innovations requires more than software it demands modern, AI-capable hardware. This session explores how workstation architecture, including high-performance CPUs, professional GPUs, dedicated AI accelerators, and optimized memory and storage configurations, enables faster design iteration, intelligent automation, real-time visualization, and enhanced collaboration. Attendees will learn how AI workloads are changing hardware requirements across BIM, CAD, visualization, simulation, and reality capture workflows, and how to future-proof their technology investments. Join us to discover why AI-ready workstations are becoming an essential foundation for the next generation of Autodesk-powered AEC projects.
Las Vegas 2026
AI-Assisted AutoLISP in AutoCAD: A Practical Workflow for Nonprogrammers
Most AutoCAD users never touch AutoLISP. So many small, repetitive design tasks stay manual. This session will show how AI-assisted AutoLISP workshops helped rail engineers who have little or no coding experience build useful automations themselves. You'll discover how to identify good automation candidates, prompt AI for workable routines, validate and refine the results, and add lightweight governance through version control and testing. The outcome? Faster design work, more self-sufficient teams, and a practical path from AI curiosity to repeatable workflow improvement.
21p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Your AI Is Only as Smart as Your Project Data
Every firm is piloting AI. Most pilots stall for the same reason, and it isn't the model. It's the data. Decades of drawings, RFIs, specs, and contracts sit scattered across servers, inboxes, and forgotten project folders. The firms winning with AI in 2026 treat project history as an asset. They make it findable, permissioned, and trusted before pointing AI at it. This talk shows how to fix the data layer first: what to organize, how to govern access, and how to build the foundation that makes AI accurate and safe. You'll leave with fresh insights on how to turn scattered project data into firm knowledge your teams, and your AI, can actually use.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Design, Make, and Move: Real-World Workflows on Slim Mobile Workstations Powered by Intel

Design and Make teams are under pressure to deliver more-complex projects, faster, from anywhere. In this session, a frontline super-user from industry joins Intel to show how Autodesk Fusion, AutoCAD, and Revit come together on slim mobile workstations powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 and Intel Arc B390 graphics to meet that challenge. You'll see how the speaker's organization moved from traditional, desk-bound workflows to a flexible, AI enabled setup that keeps designers, engineers, and BIM teams productive whether they're in the office, on the shop floor, or on the jobsite. Revit drives rich intelligent models and documentation. AutoCAD handles detailed 2D and 3D work that still anchors many projects. Autodesk Fusion connects design, generative exploration, and manufacturing in a single environment. All of it runs on slim, professional mobile workstations with integrated Intel Arc graphics and on-device AI acceleration without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Factory Summit | From Reactive to Resilient: How MaintainX Is Powering Intelligent Maintenance
Keeping operations running has never been more critical. Maintenance and operations leaders must maximize asset performance, reduce downtime, control costs, and do more with leaner teams - all while keeping production moving. Join leaders from MaintainX, now an Autodesk company, to explore how leading manufacturers are rethinking maintenance as a driver of operational performance and a competitive differentiator. Drawing on insights from thousands of customers, this session will share how data from frontline workers, real-time machine connectivity, and artificial intelligence (AI) help frontline teams improve asset reliability, increase productivity, and make faster, more informed decisions. You'll learn how digital maintenance platforms help teams reduce unplanned downtime, standardize work, and turn operational data into actionable insights. This session will also cover what's next for intelligent maintenance and asset management - and why manufacturers are making this a priority today.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Enabling Next-Generation Autodesk Workflows: Can a Slim Mobile Workstation Really Keep Up with Your Autodesk Work?
As AI, visualization, and increasingly complex 3D workflows reshape how teams design, review, render, and simulate, professionals need more than raw specifications they need a system that performs reliably wherever work happens. Join us and an Autodesk industry expert from the Elite Experience program for a real-world look at modern mobile workstation workflows across Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, and Fusion. The session will share firsthand experience using a slim mobile workstation as a primary device, including the performance, responsiveness, mobility, battery-life, and day-to-day usability factors that matter beyond a benchmark score. Attendees will learn how to evaluate the right balance of CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and connectivity for their own workloads; when local, cloud, or hybrid workflows make sense; and how to identify where a hardware upgrade will deliver meaningful value
38p
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